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About the new planet: I read on another site that "Astronomers had written software — called Robovetter — that could go through that data and identify potential
by ape4 7y ago
About the new planet: I read on another site that "Astronomers had written software — called Robovetter — that could go through that data and identify potential planets. However, there was always the possibility the algorithm could miss the data, so a team of roughly a dozen astronomers are going manually through rejected data. And that's how they found Kepler-1649c."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/earth-sized-exoplanet-habitable-zone-1.5536651 https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/earth-sized-exoplanet-hab...